A military spouse's take on blooming where you are planted. I continue to pretend I am living on my dream farm while in reality, I live on a military base, gardening in a plot alongside a Navy flightline, with half of my homesteading supplies perpetually packed in boxes and have a habit of being overly involved in every community we live in. I'm a busy mom to 2 boys and a spouse to a Navy sailor soon nearing retirement. I love this chaotic life wouldn't trade it for anything!

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May 8, 2015

Friday Randomness

There is really no interesting news on the garden front this week. Everything is still barely coming up, and the ground looks like a dried up river bed.

First up award goes to the garlic!

I did this in the garden - sprained my ankle something awful! Fell in a groundhog hole on my way to the water spigot. Thought I was falling into a well for a minute! Got ice on it right away and it's slowly getting better, but I can't drive my stick now :(

Wildlife: 1 Gardener: 0

All I've got is some random observations this week:

Really? 8 bucks a jar for "heirloom" tomato sauce? Apparently the rest of us growers and canners need a class in marketing. ASAP.

The aftermath of cherry blossom festival time and crabapple season mania…. cherry tree vomit all over town. Stuck to every car and plastered all over the siding on homes, and dogs tracking in petals all over the floor.

And yes...

Monster Old Bay: because, Maryland. We bathe in it and fill up our fuel tanks with it here.

I'll be back at it tomorrow, I'm going to have a talk with that groundhog. Have a great weekend y'all!

10 comments:

I can top your $8 tomato sauce. I was in Whole Foods a couple weeks ago gazing at all the goodies when I spied some GOURMET PICKLES .........beautiful, fancy, a work of art..........for $10.99 for a 24 oz jar. Though I am STILL fighting learning how to can, even I know that is INSANE. Hope your ankle is doing better. How the heck can you be laid up in GARDENING SEASON???????

Sue, just think of how many seed packets and canning jars we could buy if we sold just a couple of jars of pickles at that price hahaha! My ankle is a bit better, hubby is going to take a weed eater to the commons area path so we can see any other holes lurking under the overgrowth!

Cute toes! We drop smoke/gas bombs in groundhog holes....I suppose that's out of the question...? Honestly, heirloom is becoming just too precious. I think we should work on our labels, because that's all it is! I meant to ask how you water your garden - it's seriously large! (I can relate about the driving problem. I love my manual transmission - until I break something.)

Susan, we have miles of hose attached to pump style spigots, it takes awhile! It's so ridiculous what we are seeing in grocery stores. I've even offered things to other people but they prefer to spend large amounts of cash at the farmer's market, no doubt so they "can be seen" doing so!

Yeah, I was looking at the price of a pint of organic dill pickles in our co-op the other day. Even though I'm getting down to the last few quarts I canned, I figure I've got enough $$$ worth on the shelves to hire someone to paint our house this summer. But since I don't want to sell my pickles, looks like I'll be the one doing the painting!

Geesh, those darn groundhogs . . . you could have broken something. I've seen your cute little toes before. When the heck do you find time to always keep them looking so nice?

I never gave any thought to the mess cherry blossoms make when they fall off the trees. Nobody publishes pictures of that, do they? Well, okay, I guess you just did. :o]

Haha you are all funny, my stupid toes :) I don't want to put anything down those holes for fear that they will just re-tunnel and come up in the middle of my lettuces! And the cherry blossoms… today they are all brown!

So first of all, it's been awhile since I've been to your blog because holy moly, you moved.

Secondly, it is amazing to me what some people can get for their heirloom products/farm products/whatever products. Marketing class and a marketing budget to match would make a big difference for us lil' folks. For the area I'm in, it's hard to sell much because this is farm land and most people are all doing the same stuff. I'd have to drive my stuff down to the cities for people to think it's cool. But even then, $8 a jar? That's one spendy plate of spaghetti.

No kidding Amy! This kind of stuff would never fly in some areas of the country since people know better haha but here in the DC area? Crazy people, just crazy. They think the more they pay, the more "organic" and "green" it must be. Insanity.

Ironically the name of the tomato in the sauce is "Mortgage Lifter".....apparently not YOUR mortgage :)And would you just LOOK at the size of that Old Bay?!? I'd kill to get a container like that. Guess I'd better go check out the Sam's Club next visit to the big city.

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Welcome! I'm a native Minnesota girl, Mom, Navy Veteran as well as a Navy spouse for the past 15 years. I am also a Certified Master Gardener that got the rug pulled out from under me 2 years ago... we transferred from a Virginia home with a huge garden into government quarters with a concrete back yard at our current duty station. Even when I can't garden, I'm dreaming of it. When I'm not getting dirty in the garden, I quilt, organize things, make lists, make more lists, go sailing and volunteer with the high school sailing team my kids are on. Only a couple more years until military retirement, we need a plan!

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